 | David Hume - 1760 - عدد الصفحات: 314
...prevail, but ftill with a diminution of its force, in proportion to that of it3 antagoniftA MJRACLE is a violation of the laws of nature ? and as a firm and unalterable experience has eftablifhed thefe laws^ the proof againft a miracle, from the' very nature of the fact,... | |
 | William Adams - 1777 - عدد الصفحات: 394
...this proof. His batteries are now mounted, and he begins the attack. '** A ' miratrle,M' fays .he, " is .a violation " of the laws of nature ; and, as a firm " and unalterable experience hath eftab". lifhed thefe laws, the proof againft a mi"'fcacje, from the nature of the facTy... | |
 | David Hume - 1779 - عدد الصفحات: 548
...ftrorigeft muft prevail, but ftill with a diminution of jts force, in proportion to that of its antagonift. A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has eftablifhed thefe laws, the proof againft a miracle, from the very nature of the fact,... | |
 | Richard Shepherd - 1788 - عدد الصفحات: 336
...words of a celebrated eflay, by zealous partizans ftill dealt out in detail, and held up in triumph. " A miracle is a " violation of the laws of nature : and *' as a firm and unalterable experience ** hath eftablimed thefe laws, the proof " againft a miracle, from the very na*.* ture of... | |
 | 1789 - عدد الصفحات: 754
...words of a celebrated efTay, by zealous parti/.ans llill dealt out in detail, and held up in triumph. " A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience hath eilabiifhed thefe laws, the proof againft a miracle, from the very nature of the i'.ict.... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...circumstances are requisite to produce a full confidence in human testimony." " A miracle," continues he, " is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience hath established those laws, the proof against it, from the very nature C 4 of of the fact,... | |
 | George Campbell - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 294
...must prevail, " but still with a diminution of its force, in " proportion to that of its antagonist. A ** miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; " and as a firm and unalterable experience " has established these laws, the proof against ".a miracle, from the very nature of the... | |
 | John Douglas - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...or miraculous nature of the events they relate ? % P. 1^4— 5. S 17*. tt " A miracle," fays he, " is a violation " of the laws of nature, and as a firm and *' unalterable experience has eftablifhed " thefe laws, the proof againft a miracle <e from the very nature of the... | |
 | George Campbell - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 530
...convinced of this, if you attend but a little to the strain of the argument. " A miracle," says he, '' is a " violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unaltera" ble experience hath established these laws, the proof against " a miracle is as entire, as... | |
 | 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 614
...attested be miraculous, here arises л contest of two opposite experience«, or proof against proof. Now a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience ha* established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact,... | |
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined. 
